Background and career
Carmen Dominicci Ramos (born July 15, 1966) is a Puerto Rican travel blogger, journalist, news anchor in the United States, and the winner of five Emmy Awards. People en Español magazine chose her as one of the "50 Most Beautiful" of 2010. She began her show business career as a model and actress.
Carmen Dominicci Ramosis a journalist, news anchor, and travel blogger. She is the creator of Carmen Dominicci Trotamundos, a travel blog focusing on international tourism destinations. Dominicci was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on July 15, 1966. She studied primary education in local schools and graduated magna cum laude from the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón with a degree in Journalism and Social Communication.
Dominicci began appearing in television commercials in the late 1980s. She represented Puerto Rico in various beauty pageants and international modeling competitions in the United States and Europe. She pursued a career in television, first in theatrical plays and then in television miniseries, but she left that path to focus fully to her journalism studies. In 1989 she married Puerto Rican actor Osvaldo Ríos with whom she had a son, Giuliano Ríos Dominicci. She and Osvaldo divorced in 1993. In the 1990s, Carmen Dominicci became a prominent news reporter in Puerto Rico thanks to her work on the Tele-Once Channel, and later as the presenter on WAPA-TV's prime time newscast.
In 1998, she signed a contract with Telemundo 47, New York, as a news anchor, position she held for four years, and in which she covered important events such as President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial, the inauguration of President George Bush and the 9-11 attacks on the Twin Towers, among others.
In 2002 Carmen Dominicci joined the Univision network as a presenter of the "Primer Impacto" news program where she worked for three years, and conducted the night edition of the same program. Among her outstanding coverages were the death of Pope John Paul II, (broadcast directly from Rome, Italy), and the investigative series “Infierno Animal" and "Tragedia en Jimaní" and "Tragedia en Jimaní”, about the tragic landslide that caused the death of more than 400 people. In October 2005, Carmen Dominicci and Rolando Nichols became presenters of the "TeleFutura en Vivo y en Directo”. The following year Carmen returned to Univision as a correspondent of the investigative show "Aquí y Ahora", where she worked until 2009. While she was working on "Aquí y Ahora" in 2007, Univision's sister network, Galavision, created the journalistic talent contest "Misión Reportar", and Carmen was chosen as the host. In that same year the journalist married her ex-coworker of "Primer Impacto", Fernando del Rincón, but the couple divorced in 2008.
In 2009, Dominicci returned to Telemundo as a news anchor for the 'Telemundo News' team which by then was already part of the NBC conglomerate. During this period, she covered events such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the rescue of the 33 miners and the catastrophe of the earthquake and tsunami in Chile, both in 2010. In 2011, she joined as a co-host and correspondent for the "Al Rojo Vivo" news program and joined the special investigative team of Noticias Telemundo, where she won several awards for the special "Muriendo por Cruzar”, about immigration at the Mexican / American border. She also interviewed notable personalities such as soccer player David Beckham. During one documentary Dominicci did for Telemundo and for The Weather Channel about immigration to the United States which was named "Muriendo Por Cruzar" ("Dying to Cross"), she had the gruesome experience of recording a scene in which she stood in front of a dozen dead people. (warning: graphic content)
